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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're either in or you're not.  If you're not then your kid gets invited to significantly less birthday parties and play dates.  Getting in requires that you schmooze with the right people relentlessly and have endless face time at the school (and the bar is set high---there are parents who seem to literally live at the school).  People invest in others based on what they can (or can't) so for them socially.  Honestly it feels like high school.  I can't be imagining this.  It was not like this at any other school setting my child has been apart of.  Perhaps the fact that everyone lives within a few miles of each other and for many people Janney is their entire DC social life contributes to this?[/quote]

Excuse me for being late to this thread and I have no skin in this matter as my kids went to Murch but it struck me because it reminded me of a statement made by a parent of a former Janney student whose son was there for one year.  Our kids were at the same school at one time before going to our respective elementary schools.  I wondered why he left.  The parent told me about how his son was excluded from birthday parties.  At the time I thought that sounded crazy because my kids who were at Murch were invited to every birthday party that I knew of in their first year, which was 4th grade.  I wasn't sure they'd make friends since most of the kids had been there since K.  I could tell the father was hurt about his son not being invited to parties as any parent would.  Reading this thread was a kind of "aha" and gave renewed credibility to the parent.  If this is true, it is a very sad commentary on the parents because selective exclusion is learned behavior from the adults.  My kids left to go to a private school and no one is excluded from parties or social activities.  I have never heard of this and it hurts my heart for the children who are victims of such stupid, juvenile behavior.[/quote]

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